Sitecore is a powerful DXP it is desiged for enterprise-level websites. As Marketers you would need to set up your forms and Sitecore provides a solution out-of-the-box to easily create your own forms by drag and drop your form controls like: Text, Buttons, Inputs and customize submit actions. However, your site is vulnerable to bot attacks and some companies prefer to use Google’s reCaptcha to prevent bot traffict to their websites.

I’ve been working on a Sitecore forms module, which support the ReCaptcha Enterprise version within Sitecore Forms. If you want to contribute in the module development please refer the following Github Repo:

https://github.com/RobertoArmas/Sitecore-Forms-ReCaptcha

Installation

To make it easily to install you need to add a Nuget Package in your Webiste project.

Install-Package SitecoreModules.Foundation.Forms

Configuration

To setup the module it is required to add Google ReCaptcha Keys Refer to this google docs: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/docs/keys

Usage

This module is easy to use. All you need to do is Drag and Drop the control named: “ReCaptcha Enterprise” which is located under Security section.

Then you can configure the module by click on it, then select the mode, it could be:

• Invisible: Provides a better user experience, reCaptcha v3 is invisible for webiste visitors.
• Checkbox: Use a challenge if Google detects a bot behaviour.

Finally, save your form. I hope you find this modue useful on your projects.

I’m very happy to participate in Sitecore Hackathon 2022!. I participated with my teammate Daniel Pastor in the team Send Pizza and Coffee and I’m proud of what we archived. This year there were 3 topics for Sitecore Hackathon ideation.

• Build and e-commerce Minimum Viable Product to sell community t-shirts
• Extend the Sitecore Command Line (CLI) Plugin
• Best addition to the Sitecore MVP Site.

Additionally we were thinking in a problematic that business have to facing during the COVID-19. One of the coolest rewards after becoming a Sitecore MVP has always been the Sitecore Swag we receive. However, due to the pandemic and changes from year to year, the delivery process can be a little confusing. We decided to make a “Sitecore MVP Swag tracker” page with some modules where the user could track the delivery status of their care package.

The value of real-time systems came into focus in 2020 as companies responded to the disruptions due to COVID-19. Nowadays, people want to have information at hand efficiently, this creates confidence in technological users, the information must be in real time, the actual generation want the information right now.

This module will display the status of the delivery in real time from an external push service which could come from a mobile app from the delivery service.

Our proposal was focused on the user experience, they could know where the MVP swag package is in the delivery process. Our technology is based in web-sockets using Pusher as key platform to our solution succeed.

Web-sockets provides a channel to broadcast to the users the information about their package tracking with the following events:

• On Track: Send the deliver man location in real-time, the idea is that each delivery man have a mobile application that sends the geo location.
• In Order Completed: This event notify to the website’s user that the order is completed and delivered at the door.

Finally, we provide a Sitecore Form which could be use in case that something wrong happens with the delivery, and the people in charge could get in contact.

You’ll find more information about our project in the following link:

https://github.com/Sitecore-Hackathon/2022-Send-Pizza-and-Coffee

This article will explain how you can improve the Content Author’s experience. Actually, content authors need to change content or settings (like checkbox, drop list) on data source which probably is not accessible by the Experience Editor´s UI. What content authors usually do in those cases, is open Content Editor and browse the data source and edit it, but at this point content author exits the experience editor.

In order to improve their lives, it´s recommended to use a Custom Experience Button.

You can create an Experience Button from the content editor using the following steps:

1. Select Core Database

3. You can create a folder with your site name that contains the experience buttons for your module.

• Header: You can fill with “Edit”
• Icon: Choose an icon, edit.png fits.
• Fields: Pipe-separated list of field names to be edited by the Field Edtior
• Tooltip: you can fill with “Edit”.

5. Add your Experience Button in your desired Rendering.

6. Now, in Experience Editor you can see a new Button in the options. If you clicked you will find a form to fill all fields that you declared in the Experience Button.

This will increse the content authors experence using Experience Editor, especially in the fields that are not in-line editing.

In this article, I will talk about a Sitecore Shared Sessions configuration. Many times when you deploy your changes to production environment. You will notice that the application pool was recycled. To avoid this problem, you can configure Redis to store the user’s sessions.

This configuration is pretty simple you will need to follow this walkthrough.

Once you enabled shared sessions using Redis you will notice when you deploy your new releases, the users that are navigating to your website don’t required to enter their credentials again.

But following this approach, as developer you will need to take care about the models that you are building for use as session variables.

[Serializable]
    public class Location
    {
        [RawValueOnly]
        public ID ID { get; set; }
        [RawValueOnly]
        public string CountryCode { get; set; }
        [RawValueOnly]
        public string CountryName { get; set; }

        [RawValueOnly]
        public string City { get; set; }

    }

If you do not serialize your model, once you want to retrieve your session variable website will crash.

I hope this information will be useful for you.

Eloqua is a tool maintained by Oracle that is used for Marketing Automatization. Eloqua helps B2B markets and organizations manage marketing campaigns and sales lead generation. Those organizations have huge websites that contains many contact forms. As, we talk enormous websites Sitecore is a great DXP (Digital Experience Platform) to build those kind of websites.

So, this article is going to talk about how to integrate Sitecore Forms with Eloqua Integration in order to facilitate the developers life. I created a project in Github, which contains the code that integrate Eloqua with Sitecore Forms.

Installation:

https://github.com/RobertoArmas/Sitecore-Forms-Eloqua/releases/tag/v10.1.1.0809202101

1. Download Feature.EloquaForms-10.1.1.0809202101.zip
2. Install Sitecore Package

Usage:

1. Create a Sitecore Form

2. Drag and Drop the form controls that you need it for your form.

When you dragged a control like Single-line text you will noticed that this control contains a section called Eloqua to turn on the Prefill feature if your requirements needed.

The important thing here is named the form same as Eloqua Form and the Single-line text’s control name match as Eloqua Form.

3. Add submit button

After drag and drop Submit Button, Add an action and select Submit To Eloqua.

4. Add Eloqua Tracking Scripts

You can add Eloqua Tracking scripts into your form by drag and drop Eloqua Tracking Scripts control. Then you can fill the Eloqua Form Name and the Eloqua Site Id

And that’s it, now you can place your form in any page. and this will submit the form to Eloqua.

In conclusion this is a basic tool that allows you to integrate your Sitecore Forms to Eloqua Forms without coding.